Broadcom-wl v. Kernel
by homburg@tips-Q.com
I have a new Dell toy on which I installed F10. I had
been running F8 on a Vaio with a vanilla kernel that
had the athos drivers compiled in.
Setup installed the PAE kernel. Using rpmfusion, I
installed broadcom-wl along with the dependencies.
kernel
broadcom-wl
kmod-wl-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686
kmod-wl
I am not at all sure why it installed two kmod-wl. Both are
from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates???
Is the kernel dependency correct? Does this mean that - to
use wireless - I should boot from the non-PAE kernel?
I hate to ask - I feel stupid - but what is the difference
between rpmfusion free and nonfree? Is this a licensing
issue?
Thanks
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15 years, 2 months
[F9] HELP, Dual head laptop with nvidia card
by Jorge Boscan Etura
Hello
I upgraded from F8>F9 and when I tried to use my old xorg.conf configured to use
dual head and it failed something has changed from f8 to f9 so I need
help with a
working dual head xorg.conf file.
Best regards,
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15 years, 2 months
Will Fedora 9 get 2.6.28?
by Will Yonker
Hello all,
The subject says it all really. I'm running Fedora 9 and want to use
EXT4. I realize there is support in the 2.6.27 but I've read that all the
goddies are not in until 2.6.28. So, will Fedora 9 get it or do I have to
upgrade to Fedora 10?
Is anyone using EXT4 and software RAIDs (5)?
Thanks
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15 years, 2 months
music download sites?
by Kevin Kempter
Hi all;
anyone out there using one of the pay for music download sites? I'm wanting to
find one that does not require windows or mac software to simply download the
mp3 files, or other such stupidity.
Suggestions ?
Thanks in advance
15 years, 2 months
F10 post installation kernel issue?
by Dan Thurman
First time F10 install went well. One thing I did
differently in installing F10 was to:
1) Use the Volume based filesystems
2) Enabled disk encryption
I noticed that on every reboot, one must enter the password
long before seeing a grub display. Hmm... maybe for a server
this is not the way to go, but for a workstation, it's probably ok.
Anyway, the initial kernel I started with is:
(1) kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
I proceeded to get the latest updates and this was approx. 1 week ago.
I later added programs I wanted installed, configured the services I wanted,
etc., etc., and everything went well. I was able to reboot, no problems.
But then a few days later, more updates came through, but specifically
a new kernel was added:
(2) kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686
Rebooting, I got the messages:
======================
ata1: ACPI get timing mode failed (AE 0x300d)
Loading /lib/kdb/Keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map
[hang]
So, I never got to the point where I needed to enter
the encrypted disk password for continuance.
To be sure, I rebooted back to the original kernel (1),
and it booted just fine. Leaving it there, I continued using
the system, but got yet another kernel update:
(3) kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686
Same problem reported in (2) above. So I am still
stuck at using my initial kernel at (1).
Is there anything I can do or to check to understand why
I am not able to use the latest kernels?
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 2 months
is KDE dead - did Gnome win?
by Genes MailLists
I am a long time KDE user - in part for similar reasons to Linus - it
was configurable, flexible and let me set things up the way I wanted -
easily and simply. It had a very nice configuration manager. Gnome by
contrast was rigid, inflexible and to configure it - the bits it
allowed you to - you needed in part to learn about its registry which
warned you that the registry editor may corrupt things in bad ways - use
at your risk. Gnome was undergoing rapid changes - metacity went through
a lot before it was stable .. kde all the while was pretty stable.
That was the way things used to be. Now KDE is harder to configure,
not as flexible and is difficult if not impossible to set up the way I
like things (task manager showing 1 icon per console or per firefox, the
workspace chooser in the middle, the ability to click and save a session
etc etc).
So what I am seeing is some of the KDE users I know are slowly giving
up and moving back to gnome - its the default windowing
manager/environment on fedora and ubuntu and seems more mature and
stable than KDE 4 - and since as far as configurability goes, KDE has
little advantage to offer at this time. Perhaps the next version, or the
one after that will bring back the advantages. Maybe by 4.2 or 4.3 or
4.4 or... 5.0 ..
So seeking guidance from the path others are choosing:
(1) Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead
or alive ?
(2) Are there fedora Gnome users moving to KDE ? It is after all very
similar in its function now ... and does not use spatial mode by default
(;-).
Be very interested in hearing what thoughts others are having.
gene
15 years, 2 months
yum list display some package in 2 rows
by Ambrogio
Hi all,
I use yum list in a script to have everytime I need a list of package
available.
Some packages, that have long names, are displayed in 2 rows, so scripts
are more hard to be coded.
There is an option to have a more simple list of packages, less readable
by umans, but more readable by computer?
Tnx
Ambrogio
15 years, 2 months
campcaster on fedora?
by Dave Stevens
I hope the subject line is self-explanatory, but in case it isn't, does anyone
have Campcaster (radio station automation software) in an rpm? It seems the
default builds are .debs.
Dave
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15 years, 2 months
Re: IPv6 and localhost
by Allen Kistler
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang rupprecht+gnus200901 gmail com>
>> Allen Kistler <an037-ooai8(a)yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>> So the question really is: Is there a reason localhost is not both
>>> the IPv4 loopback and the IPv6 loopback (*other* than hiding some bugs
>>> in some programs)? Or should Fedora (and eventually Red Hat) change
>>> the default /etc/hosts shipped/created with anaconda?
>>
>> One of the first things I do on an install is get rid of the lame
>> distribution /etc/hosts file. I've done this since fc4 and fedora,
>> just like netbsd and openbsd has no need for the silly targeted
>> localhost names. The other silly thing is the "localhost.localdomain"
>> entry coming first. Really, what is that about??? "localhost" has
>> worked just fine for over 2 decades. Software understands it. What
>> advantage is there to rocking the boat?
>
> Using the hosts file for the local name and the names of a few useful hosts is
> protection against some fascist ISP deciding to block or DNAT all DNS queries to
> the ISP servers. So they can block lookup of sites they deem harmful.
I'm not certain I follow how the ISP gets involved with the definition
of localhost in /etc/hosts, but I haven't seen any reason not to call
the lack of an IPv6 definition for localhost (specifically not
"localhost6") a bug and to try to get it fixed.
My inclination is to file a bug against the F11 alpha when it comes out
next week, since it's anaconda that creates the default file content. I
expect some resistance to change, but I can only hope that BZ doesn't
become the venue of a debate on it, though.
15 years, 2 months